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. F. W. HOFELE.

CLOTHES LINE FRAME.

N0.v 396,817. Patented Jan. 29, 1889.

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FERDINAND \V. HOFELE, OF NElY YORK, N. Y ASSIGNOR TO EBEN S. ALLEN, OF SAlllE PLACE.

CLOTHES-LINE FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 396,817, dated January 29, 1889..

Application filed March 7, 1888. Serial No. 266, l53. (N0 model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FERDINAND W. l lomcnn, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful improvements in (Jothes-lline Frames, of wh ich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to fire-proof iron clothes-line frames for house-tops.

The object of the invention is to prod uce a support for the path between the outer and inner lines of one of said frames, which can be readily adjusted to different heights to suitthe incline of the root and maintain the path in a horizontal position.

The invention consists of the cmnbination, with the outer and inner su )portirig-frames and the path supported between the same, of transverse slats riveted to the angle-irons of the frames, and of yokes of in verted-U shape thatare attached to the roof and to the middle parts of the transverse slats, as will appear more fully hereinafter, and linallybe pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my improved tire-proof clothes-line frame for roofs. Fig. 2 is a vertical trai'isvorse section of the same on line a: 00, Fig. 1, drawn on a larger scale.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresp ondin g parts.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the outer frame or line of posts, and B the inner frame or posts, of the roof clothes-line frame. Angle-irons a and I) extend along and are at tached to the posts, their horizontal flanges projecting toward each other. The path is composed of a number of longitudinal slats, 0, attached to transverse slats D, which are riveted to the angle-irons a and b and supported about midway between the same by in vertod-U-shaped yokes E, the sides of which are inclined, bent oulnvardly at their lower ends, and rireted to the roof, as shown in Fig. 2. The transverse slats are riveted to the upper part or bridge of the supportingyokes E. The supporting-yokes E are composed. of a single piece of metal which has sufficient flexibility to enable it to be spread apart more or less, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 9, so as to reduce the height of the yokes and the sections of the horizontal path which are closer to the inclined roof, so that one size of yoke can be used for supporting the path-sections in their different relative distances from the inclined roof.

llavin g thus described my invent-ion, l elai in as new and desire to seen re by Letters Patent?- In a clothes-line frame for roofs, the combination of the outer and inner supportingframes, path-supports attached thereto, transverse slats attached to said supports, longitndin al slats attached to said transverse slats, and adjustable yokes of in verted-U shape attached at their lower ends to the roof and at their upper parts or bridges to the transverse slats, each of said yokes being composed of a single p icce of metal possessing su Ffi cient flexibility for adjustment, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FERDINAND XV. I-IOFELE.

Witnesses:

LoUIs C. RAEGENER, JOHN A. STRALEY. 

